HIGHLIGHTS • Small Steps You Can Take to Change Your Spending Habits w/ Matt Swinney
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.6 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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We continue with @matt.swinney this week and dive deep into strategies and tips for leveling up your business. We also discuss the importance of paying attention to your finances and planning for your future beyond hair.
This Week's Topics:
• Injury in college ended football career, trying hair school because of parents
• Building your business and financial planning
• What he would change about the industry
• His Hair Horror Story
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up are the highlights of the full episode. |
| 0:10.0 | Hey, listener, I'm Eric Taylor. |
| 0:12.4 | Salon Republic Emeryville in Northern California is opening later this year. |
| 0:17.0 | You can do a virtual tour or an in-person tour now on site. |
| 0:21.8 | Go to SalonRepublic.com if you want to set one of those up or go to the link in our Instagram bio. |
| 0:28.9 | Video versions of these episodes are up on our YouTube channel, The Hair Game on YouTube. |
| 0:34.6 | Don't forget to check that out. |
| 0:36.3 | Now to the continuation of my conversation with Matt Swinney. |
| 0:40.5 | So there's a pillar of the business segment that talks about that, that talks about, you know, |
| 0:47.7 | how do we build your business? How do we better service our clients? You know, what does this stuff |
| 0:52.6 | look like? Client retention, if you will, |
| 0:55.2 | how do you retain clients? How do you know when it's time to raise your prices? How much money do you |
| 0:59.9 | have to bring in in order to, you know, earn X amount of dollars, whether it be booth rental or |
| 1:05.4 | whether it be commission? Those types of things definitely are incorporated. But what are you doing with your money is a question that I have for hairstylists as well. |
| 1:15.4 | Are you driving a Tesla, you know, living in a $2,000 one-bedroom apartment, and you do not have whole life insurance, and you do not have health insurance and you know you don't |
| 1:30.1 | have these foundational things to set you up for life after hair or even for the possibility |
| 1:38.3 | of a business opportunity during hair. Exactly right. And look, I mean, yeah, how many have workmen comp? |
| 1:46.8 | Right. |
| 1:48.0 | And yes. |
| 1:48.4 | You're a booth hunter. |
| 1:49.1 | Do you have workman's comp? |
| 1:51.1 | Totally. |
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